What kind of difference would I notice?

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So the monitor I have is something in the region of 9 years old, its an apple 21 inch cinema display (or something along those lines, its old enough that it doesn’t feature on the apple website). It definitely isn’t a thunderbolt display.

The monitor still works perfectly fine and I (imho) I still think it looks like a classy bit of kit. I was wondering what sort of difference I am likely to see in upgrading to a newer monitor? I don’t think I would want something wildly larger, perhaps something in the region of 27 inches as a maximum.

I assume there must be concrete advances in technology but would appreciate it if someone could let me know what sort of benefit I am likely to see. Budget isn’t really too much of a problem, I guess I would be happy to spend £700 ish

Any suggestions welcomed.
 
Night and day is what springs to mind! :D

My monitor is 7 years old and when I go in the shops and see the shiny IPS displays, am like just wait I need other stuff first. ;)
 
So the monitor I have is something in the region of 9 years old, its an apple 21 inch cinema display (or something along those lines, its old enough that it doesn’t feature on the apple website). It definitely isn’t a thunderbolt display.

The monitor still works perfectly fine and I (imho) I still think it looks like a classy bit of kit. I was wondering what sort of difference I am likely to see in upgrading to a newer monitor? I don’t think I would want something wildly larger, perhaps something in the region of 27 inches as a maximum.

I assume there must be concrete advances in technology but would appreciate it if someone could let me know what sort of benefit I am likely to see. Budget isn’t really too much of a problem, I guess I would be happy to spend £700 ish

Any suggestions welcomed.

At 9 years old it's probably some kind of CCFL tech - which means over the years the image is probably going to be crap with the backlight slowly going. You'll see big differences with modern IPS screens I'd think.
 
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